Saturday, March 2, 2013

Tone questionnaires

1. What is the author’s attitude towards actions or event?

A: Jane represents the author. The author’s attitude towards family and sisters are so protective and wish the best for another person. It is like how sisters love each other. It’s like how family love and cared for each other.

2. Is the story humorous or tragic or frightening? Does the author want you to laugh or cry, to feel happy or sad, and to experience anger or fear?
A: The author wants us to feel some tragic, and happy. She wants us to know that money and success is not everything. Happiness and true love doesn’t need money or success. Every happy thing can be found at home.

3. What is the author’s attitude toward characters or the narrator? Does the author like or dislike, trust or mistrust the characters or the narrator?
A: The author’s attitude toward the characters. The author likes how the character can represent the author’s feeling. The author likes how the ending goes by knowing that the main character realizes what the right thing to do is.


Symbolism questionnaires

1. What are some of the symbols in the story?

A: The symbols in this story are the places they visited. To my, London represents money and success. Cornwall represents home, family, and love. These are the main symbols in the story that I can spotted clearly.

2.Are there any objects which seem to have a symbolic meaning? What are their meanings?
A: There are no objects in the story that have a symbolic meaning. I don’t see any object would symbolic any meaning.

3. Do any people act as symbols in the story? What do they represent?
A: Godfrey represents the good guy who sacrifices his happiness for his lover. And Allan is a bad guy who isn’t that evil. It’s just like another guy that took the heroine away. This story doesn’t really have any people act as symbols.

4. Do aspects of the story’s setting seem symbolic? In what way?
A: First would be London. London represents money and success. When Lalla went to London to work and engage, she also got into fame, success, and money which get her lost. She didn’t go to what she really wanted. Cornwall represents home, family, and true love. Lalla came back to Cornwall because she knew that at London, there are the things that she doesn’t really want. But then in Cornwall, she knew that there is something she really wanted such as family and Godfrey, her true love.

5. Is one symbol used throughout the story or do the symbols change?
A: The symbol of the places doesn’t change. London is still the place where Lalla doesn’t really feel good and happy there. At the start of the story, Cornwall is the place where she is comfortable with and is the place where she feels happy and enjoys most. At the end of the story, Cornwall still symbolize as the place where Lalla is happy and find what she wants the most.